Student Advisory Board
The Roosevelt student advisory board represents the interests and concerns of our chapters and members. The board, which consists of outstanding Roosevelt students from across the country, provides guidance and counsel to staff, while representing the student voice.
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Meg Evans is a senior Political Science major at Yale, focusing in international development. She began her Roosevelt career as a freshmen working on education policy in New Haven. After a semester abroad in South Africa, Meg returned to head the Yale Chapter of Roosevelt. She spent this past summer working on issues of globalization policy at NDN in DC as a Roosevelt Fellow. More importantly she spent the summer as the starting secondbaseman on the Ruff Riders. Meg now chairs the Student Advisory Board - helping bring student voices to the larger governance of the Roosevelt Institute.
Cory Connolly is a senior at Michigan State University, majoring in International Relations and specializing in Economic and Environmental Policy and Latin American and Caribbean Studies. As a third year member of the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, he has authored numerous policy papers and been active in the implementation of Roosevelt ideas. In his position as a Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, Cory has engaged policymakers at the community, state, and national level. In addition to serving as a Senior Fellow and a center director at MSU, Cory is excited to be a member of the Student Advisory Board.
Libby Longino a rising senior at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she is double-majoring in English and Public Policy Analysis. She has been a member of Roosevelt since her freshman year and took over as president of the chapter in January 2009. Whether through finding great speakers for Roosevelt events, developing an organizational structure that can support eight policy centers and eight think impact projects simultaneously, motivating members to translate their ideas into pieces for publication, partnering with other organizations on campus to sponsor events, or coordinating a regional conference with other chapters, she's been involved with the work of a Roosevelt chapter at every level. Her own policy interests have focused on the international and social justice realms, and she's had the opportunity to spend time researching in Israel, Turkey, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Switzerland, and South Africa on topics ranging from religious minorities to human trafficking since coming to college in 2006. When not sending out emails to UNC's Roosevelt listserv, she also likes to play Scrabble, hang out on the quad at Carolina, peruse Arts & Letters Daily, and eat cupcakes. Libby considers herself tremendously blessed to have been born and raised in the great state of Texas.
Kate Glassman was chapter head of the Roosevelt Institute at Berkeley for the academic school year of 2008-2009. Kate joined the Roosevelt Institute in fall of 2007 when she enrolled in the Roosevelt class offered at UC Berkeley as a sophomore. The Berkeley Chapter still functions as a student-run class, or "Decal" on campus. During her time as chapter leader, Kate crafted a new curriculum for the class focused on Bay Area and California-specific policy to encourage community outreach using the “Think Impact” strategy. Kate looks forward to her new role in the organization as a member of the 2009-2010 Student Advisory Board and hopes to bring to it a particular perspective of and voice for the Western region. Kate also looks forward to getting to know more awesome Roosevelt members throughout the year. Kate is currently in her senior year at Berkeley majoring in Rhetoric with a minor in Public Policy, writing her thesis, and doing everything she can to make the most of her final year.
Adrian is a senior at Columbia University's engineering school
majoring in applied mathematics. Adrian has been active with RI since
his freshman year when he began working in energy and environmental
policy. During his sophomore year, he served as Columbia University's
chapter President and following that as the founding Editor in Chief
of Catalyst the RI's journal of energy and environmental policy. As
part of the SAB, Adrian hopes to help develop the next generation of
progressive leaders. The RI is an organization built around students,
and students should remain its number one priority. It is this
perspective that Adrian hopes to contribute to the SAB. That and a
phenomenal hamburger recipe.
